Richard Salt: If Conservatives want to win the next election, we must Think North

As so many elections have shown in the past, both the main parties only win elections when they move into the centre.

Binita Mehta-Parmar: What the Tories need to do to improve their standing with minority voters

The reshuffle showed just how far BME Conservatives have come since I first joined the Party, but we have much farther still to go.

De Bois offers a witty account of how not to hold Enfield North

His memoir describes the travails of a non-Cameroon during the Coalition and under Conservative majority government.

Alex Morton: Why the Tory tendency to bash our friends and back our enemies – for example, over student immigration numbers?

The Conservatives need to support genuine allies – such as savers, home owners, small businesses, and the armed forces.

Ashcroft’s new book: at the general election May failed to stop the Tories being seen as the nasty party

The PM lost her majority by running a single issue campaign which left Corbyn the chance to pose as the champion of ordinary people.

Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part one. Why the operation that succeeded in 2015 failed in 2017.

One senior official put it to me starkly: “We should ask a question of the team – are you ready to fight another election in two years? If the answer is yes, then it’s a lie.”

One isn’t enough

The Electoral Reform Society calculates that a tiny change in votes would have given May a bare majority last spring. But how much difference would this have made?

Rees-Mogg should be offered a Ministerial post

No, we don’t believe that he should be the next Tory leader. But he would make a better Minister than some of those now in place.

Lewis Baston: Election gambles that worked. And those that failed – like May’s this year.

And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.

Barely a third of Conservative MPs were elected before Cameron’s leadership

Such a generational shift in peacetime is remarkable, and strengthens the case for a member of a recent intake to succeed the Prime Minister.

Lewis Baston: The election suggests that the tectonic plates of British politics are shifting

The shock over the overall result has distracted us from how remarkable some of each party’s gains really were.

Francis Maude: To win, we must modernise all over again

Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.

Richard Holden: How and why the LibDems went backwards in every English and Welsh seat they defended

With seven of their nine seats in England now held with majorities of less than eight per cent of the vote, the next election offers a chance to take them out for good.

The crucial difference between a non-win this month and the win in 2015 was the failure of the Tory machine

May won five per cent more of the vote than Cameron did two years ago. The margin between having a majority and not having one was performance in marginal seats.

Seven political myths that have been shattered by this election

Coalitions are the new normal…”banging on about Europe” is inherently unpopular…no-one will ever listen to the polls again.